Word: judgments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...look at the fighting in Europe we may feel encouraged by the valiant and zestful manner in which the Russians have begun their spring offensive. . . . It would be prudent, however, and in accordance with Stalin's own judgment to take a more restrained view...
...tons of water when she moves. The silt under her must be blown out and dredged out. A thousand holes in her steel skin, such as ports, must be sealed up. Out of her hull must be drained as many of the tons of dirty water as engineering judgment decides. And at least 10,000 cubic yards of muck must be sucked out of her shell. When all this is done, with a hundred other more technical operations, the Lafayette will regain buoyancy, will right herself like a released rolypoly-the Navy hopes...
Most interesting was the unusual citation's remarkable last sentence: "His conduct of the operations of the Allied naval forces in the Southwest Pacific area during January and February, 1942, was characterized by unfailing judgment and sound decision, coupled with marked moral courage, in the face of discouraging surroundings and complex associations." To many people these large phrases said smaller, more definite things...
...present there seems to be slight danger in keeping artistic masterpieces safe in museums and galleries, the conference reports, but "the new quantities of risk" make it wise to be prepared for the worst. Correct appraisal of the risks and a sound judgment of properties of materials are the most important factors in such a program...
...20th Century looked superficially healthy. Even now Author de Sales remembers that time as "the fabulous world of peace, security, order, stability," when "only the Russians had passports" and "a dollar was worth five francs and nobody thought that it could be worth anything else until the Day of Judgment." That Day arrived with World War I. Most of its victims did not recognize it. They failed to realize that the Russian revolution was an organic part of World War I-the first serious lesion in the civilized social body. The second was Naziism. Only slowly did men realize that...